No more unwanted links to Viagra!
If you are blessed with popular blog, then you are also cursed wth a perpetual flow of comments by enterprising individuals (and businesses) on the Internet attempting to hitch a ride on your high profile exposure by linking up with a constant barrage of ads for Viagra, Porn sites, you name it.
Of course, if you switch on the comment filter, the cheesey offers are blocked, until the blog owner either rejects or allows the post to be published on the web site.
Now, in view of the escalating problem which has been reaching epic proportions, Google has installed a "spam" filter like those installed on e-mail services on the World Wide Web.
If a blogger has not turned on the "comment filter", Google's new spam feature, will kick in.
For newbies in blog territory - who are in the dark about how to locate and manage filter controls - it is a virtual Godsend.
I expect that once the word is out, though, that hackers will find novel ways to crack in.
'Til then, bloggers (at some sites at least) are safe from unwanted intruders.
Thank you, Google, for rising to the occasion.
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